Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1669 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 60.2 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague No other seventeenth-century Dutch artist portrayed himself as often or in as many different ways as Rembrandt. In every phase of his career, he drew, etched and painted…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin (Good morning Mr. Gauguin) 1889 Oil on canvas and panel, 74.9 x 54.8 x 1.9 cm Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Martin Luther 1532 Oil on wood, 37 x 23.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1525 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Self Portrait aged 24 1639 Oil on oak, 65.8 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt was an exacting teacher as well as a great artist – at least, he knew how to school the apprentices who came…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Portrait de Cézanne (Portrait of Cézanne) 1874 Oil on canvas, 73 × 59.7 cm National Gallery, London On loan from the collection of Laurence Graff OBE, © Laurence Graff OBE Pissarro‘s influence profoundly changed the direction of Cézanne‘s art…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Frederick the Wise, Duke of Saxony c.1525 Oil on wood panel, 28.7 × 24.5 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia The sitter is Frederick the Wise, Duke of Saxony, who is best known for having protected…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of Luther 1532–1533 Oil on panel, 19.5 x 14 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Martin Luther 1525 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Autoportrait à la casquette (Self-Portrait in a Casquette) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 53 x 39.7 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Painted in the early 1870s, at a time when Cézanne was closest of all to the Impressionists, this…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Home, Sweet Home c.1863 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 41.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a camp, two soldiers wearing blue uniforms are lost in thought as they listen to a military band playing music in the…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le bon Samaritain (The good Samaritan) 1846 Oil on canvas, 41 x 32.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff